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Nouveaux memoires sur l'etat present de la Chine

by: Le Comte, Louis, 1655-1728

Publication date: 1696

Topics: Jesuits, Missions, Jesuits -- Missions -- China -- Early works to 1800, Missions -- China -- History -- 17th century, China -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800

Publisher: A Paris, Chez Jean Anisson directeur de l'Imprimerie Royale...

Collection: getty; americana

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: French

Volume: v.1

Vol. 1 has frontispiece port. of Kangxi emperor by Franz Ertinger. Some plates signed by Ertinger or Gérard Edelinck

Signatures, v. 1: ã¹² ẽ² A-X¹² Y². Vol. 2: pi² A-Y¹² Z⁴

Pagination, v. 1: [28], 508 p. Vol. 2: [4], 536 p

Errata, ẽ2v

Binding: 18th-century mottled goatskin(?). Boards stamped in gilt with arms of René-Jean, marquis d'Osmond (1707-1771); cf. E. Olivier, Reliures armoriées, 2469. Spine tooled in gilt, edges of boards gilt rolled. Page edges red. Green ribbon place markers (detached in v. 2)

2 v. 16 cm. (12mo)